News tagged with cannon balls
Could cannon balls from the early 19th century sink warships?
A joint experiment by researchers at the University of Haifa and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. succeeded in solving the riddle: Could cannon balls from the early 19th century sink warships?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Less lively aluminum baseball bats change game
Baseball is considered relatively safe, but its reputation was established in the era of wooden bats. Aluminum bats, introduced in the 1970s, had an enormous “trampoline effect” and made the game ...
Feb 20, 2012 |
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SideBySide projection system enables projected interaction between mobile devices
Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a system called SideBySide that enables animated images from two separate handheld projectors to interact with each other ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Baseball cheaters can't hide from the laws of physics
Some baseball superstitions are accepted as cold, hard truth. But in the world of physics, the most accepted verities are subject to experimentation.
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Used football faceshields are susceptible to breaking on impact
Game-worn football faceshields are more susceptible to breaking when subjected to high-velocity impact than are new faceshields, according to recent research.
May 23, 2011 |
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A competition full of hacks: Annual 2.007 finale pits robots against MIT history
This year’s 2.007 robotics competition paid homage to MIT’s illustrious hacking tradition, and challenged students to build robots that could replicate some of the greatest hacks in Institute history.
May 09, 2011 |
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Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather
(PhysOrg.com) -- The seemingly serene orb of Saturn is in fact a gas giant with extraordinary patterns of charged particles and rough and tumble roller derbies for rings. Such are the findings of NASA's Cassini ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2010 |
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CeBIT 2010: Live 3-D-TV
This is the year in which 3D cinema and 3D TV will make the breakthrough. At CeBIT in Hannover, Fraunhofer researchers are presenting technologies and standards that are hastening the progress.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Whalers, activists clash again in Antarctic waters
(AP) -- A group of conservationists threw bottles of butyric acid at Japanese whalers and blasted their ship with paint balls, while the Japanese fired water cannons in their latest Antarctic Ocean clash, ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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New curriculum mixes nanotechnology and skiing (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology seems a daunting subject, but for mechanical engineering students at the University of Nevada, Reno, it has taken on a real world approach - in Ski Building 101.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 14, 2009 |
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LADEE Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere
Right now, the Moon is a ghost town. Nothing stirs. Here and there, an abandoned Apollo rover — or the dusty base of a lunar lander — linger as silent testimony to past human activity. But these days, only ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2009 |
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